Paralegal (Healthcare Regulatory)

Paralegal (Healthcare Regulatory)

DACB's Health, Care and Public Law Team provides legal advice and training to a wide range of organisations operating in the health and social care sector, including NHS Trusts, independent sector providers, charities, commissioners and investors.

The team is highly rated in Legal 500 and Chambers and recognised as a “very broad range of specialists and all, without exception, first class experts and great to work with".

We currently have an opportunity for a Paralegal to join our team, with particular focus on working with our regulatory lawyers in delivery of advice and training to clients.

The team plays an important role in DACB's broader Health practice, which is widely recognised as the leading strategic, commercial and regulatory legal adviser to the health and social care sector in the UK.

Key responsibilities of the role:

Supporting the local team and the national Health, Care and Public Law Team. Your day to day responsibilities will include:

• Administration and management of a comprehensive technical mental health law training programme delivered to clients from a range of health and social care providers;
• Assisting in the organisation of internal and external events, seminars, conferences and training sessions;
• Document collation and management, particularly in relation to complex regulatory investigation and enforcement proceedings and due diligence projects, including use of electronic document management systems to support with data sharing and data rooms, bundling, indexing and redaction;
• Attending meetings with team members to assist and take notes;
• Supporting administrative tasks (including financial administration and billing) as required

Key Technical / Knowledge:

Essential:

• A strong academic background, including at least a 2:1 in Law or a related subject
• Attention to detail and a concern for quality
• An outgoing, confident communicator, with good oral and written communication skills
• An enthusiastic, flexible, self-motivated and committed team player, happy to work on larger matters as part of a team with shared responsibilities
• Strong organisational skills, together with the ability to manage deadlines and work under pressure
• IT literate

Desirable:

• Knowledge, relevant experience or a keen interest in the Health sector is an advantage.

About DACB

We're a leading international legal business with over 3,000 colleagues and a diverse range of capabilities. We're market leaders in insurance, health and real estate but with a full-service offering, including growing Financial Services and Tech capabilities. We represent a wide range of clients – from household names to government departments and NHS bodies. We act for nearly all of the top-20 UK and global insurers, we're market leaders in the provision of strategic, commercial and regulatory advice to providers and commissioners in the health sector, and in real estate we advise all of the UK’s top-five housebuilders.

We are a fast-growing international business with offices around the globe. In addition to our 11 UK offices, we also have offices in Dublin, Madrid, Paris, Milan, Rome, Singapore, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Miami, plus a broad network of affiliations across the globe.

Working with us

Our vision is to be leading business advisers, recognised for our insight and our outstanding commitment to clients, and for being the place where talented people want to work. Combine this with our supportive culture and hybrid working model, and you have: a Life that Works.

We pride ourselves on our supportive, approachable culture. We are trusted, appreciated as individuals and embraced as part of a team. At DACB, we don't just accept your differences, we celebrate and advocate for them. Our strength comes from your diverse ideas and bringing the 'whole you' to work. So if you're good at what you do, come as you are!

We are committed to and recognise the importance of equity, diversity and inclusion across the board, including and beyond the protected characteristics. We take decisions based solely on merit. We value, welcome and seek out people with different backgrounds and life experiences , perspectives, beliefs, ways of thinking and identities.

As a Disability Confident employer, we will guarantee to interview anyone with a disability, long term health condition or neurodiversity whose application meets the essential criteria for the role as set out in this advert. If this applies to you contact disabilityconfident@dacbeachcroft.com in confidence, quoting the reference number for this vacancy in the subject box of your email, and a member of the team will be in touch.

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Note for Recruitment Agencies – the DAC Beachcroft recruitment team is responsible for managing all current vacancies through direct hiring and referrals wherever possible. We do work with recruitment agencies and where we require external support we will formally release those vacancies to the agencies on our Preferred Supplier List deemed best placed to assist us. Speculative CVs sent by any agency to any DAC Beachcroft employee without a specific request by the resourcing team will not be accepted and with no introduction fee applicable. Our resourcing team can be contacted at recruitment@dacbeachcroft.com